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Which one Performs Better? Wav2Vec or Whisper? Applying both in Badini Kurdish Speech to Text (BKSTT)
Renas Adnan, Hossein Hassani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09957 https://

Which one Performs Better? Wav2Vec or Whisper? Applying both in Badini Kurdish Speech to Text (BKSTT)
Speech-to-text (STT) systems have a wide range of applications. They are available in many languages, albeit at different quality levels. Although Kurdish is considered a less-resourced language from a processing perspective, SST is available for some of the Kurdish dialects, for instance, Sorani (Central Kurdish). However, that is not applied to other Kurdish dialects, Badini and Hawrami, for example. This research is an attempt to address this gap. Bandin, approximately, has two million speak…

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Kurdish PKK to lay down arms in big step towards ending Turkey conflict - BBC News
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Kurdish PKK to lay down arms in big step towards ending Turkey conflict
The disarmament process will start under tight security in Iraqi Kurdistan and is expected to take all summer.

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Turkey's glaciers fall victim to climate change
Kemal Ozdemir looked up at the bare peaks of Mount Cilo in Turkey's Kurdish majority southeast: "There were glaciers 10 years ago," he recalled under a cloudless sky.